Jeff Buckley

If You Knew

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If you knew how I miss you,
You would not stay away today.
Don’t you know how I need you?
Stay here, my dear, with me.

I need you here beside me,
Forever and a day, a day.
Together, never parted,
Just you, just me, my love.

I can’t go on without you.
Your love is all I’m living for.
I love all things about you.
Your heart, your soul, my love.

I can’t go on without you,
Forever and a day, a day.
I need you here beside me,
Forever and a day, a day.
And no one else besides me.
I love you, I love you, I do.
I do.

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calvins_hobbies On May 05, 2006

Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen cover)

Lover, You Should've Come Over

Grace

Last Goodbye

Morning Theft

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2006-05-05 21:19:10

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by Kresju

18y ago

he sings with such passion! and it's even more meaningful because i can hear jeff actually misses the tune at about 2:42 and i just love it. he was absolutely perfect but this one time you can actually hear it and it's so special because you realize that even the his mistakes are so precious and one of a kind and i miss him so much more...it's so unfair that he didn't get chance to record more. absolutely brilliant artist...

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by calvins_hobbies

20y ago

this another nina simone cover by jeff on the expanded legacy edition of the live at sin-e ep

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by Tonagamu

19y ago

good stuff man good stuff

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by AllQuiet

18y ago

One of my favorite of his live songs.

Beautiful because of the emotion conveyed and as Kresju said, because of the little idiosyncrasies.

Love how the last line, "I love you, I do", was sung. Gorgeous. :)

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by JessEmergency

17y ago

I listen to this song at least 15 times a day.

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by tmano1

17y ago

I think the line in the last stanza that is written here as "and no one else besides me" is actually "i know what air betides me"

what do you think?

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by Babbage 13y ago

I think you're onto something, but after listening to it several times, I think it's actually: "I know what e'er betides me" (e'er meaning "ever")

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